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Need help with a HDD and cable adaptor

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Long time no speak everyone.

Basically one of my housemates has a laptop that started to refuse to boot in to Vista, so after trying various things i resorted to buying one of those USB to internal hard drive adaptors, this one does both IDE and SATA.

So took his hard drive out of the laptop, hooked everything up, hard drive spun up, my laptop recognized it and it was displayed in My Computer, awesome i thought, job done, however, when i opened the drive it was empty and the size read as 0 bytes. so pulled my 2 hard drives out of an old desktop that i have laying around that i know work, but same thing happened, recognized but nothing in them, i also cant write to any of them.

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Does it not give you an option to import a foreign disk in Disk management? Also which OS are you running?

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